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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Member for that concern and correction. It is true that Parliament has the capacity to do its work, but I do not think Parliament can sit to receive applications and advertise for applications. The PSC will need to do that work and bring to us names that they would have identified. We would then be required to vet those names. That is the process we are anchoring in our laws. The Member sits in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and he knows that is the process we used for EACC commissioners. We think it served us well. We still need the checks and balances. The process will start this way: The PSC will advertise and any citizen who feels qualified enough to serve in that capacity will have to apply. The reason I support that process is because one will do self-vetting. If you have been a land grabber you will, of course, never apply to be a commissioner in the NLC. If you have issues with the land that you have acquired, there is no chance that you will put forward your application to serve in the NLC. What we found out is that self-vetting is many times more powerful than public vetting. You vet yourself in your bedroom before you put in your application. Once you do that, you will be telling Kenyans: “I can serve as a commissioner of NLC.” The PSC will conduct the interviews and look at all documentation, history and intelligence reports. It will then generate a short list of the people who have qualified after that interview. That list will be given to the President to nominate the number of commissioners required to sit on the NLC and those names will be brought to this National Assembly for vetting. After such a rigorous process, it will be a shocker if, as a land grabber, you survive in a process that has gone to all the institutions of governance. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in supporting the inclusion of the PSC, I will also be urging the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands to look at the process we have included or used in the EACC and adopt aspects of it as relates to the NLC. It is the same process we will be recommending for the Registrar of Political Parties so that we get people who want to serve the nation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is not a secret now that the NLC feels like a CORD Coalition Commission. I do not know where that perception has come from. Maybe it is the manner in which they have presented themselves to the public. The feeling is that these commissioners are not Kenyan commissioners. Supporting that way of appointing persons brings into office somebody who wants to serve the county and not a coalition or any other interest. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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